<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear Wolfgang,</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">in Russian you can say, translating the first example of yours:</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><i><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mit ihm </font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">haben wir ein-en Freund verloren.<br>
</font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">with he:DAT have:PRES:1PL we INDEF-MASC:ACC friend lose:PPP</font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>В нем</b> мы потеряли друга</font></span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">in he:DAT we lose:PAST:1PL friend:MASC:ACC</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">As you see, it is the preposition "in", not "with", that we use in Russian. </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">But then I must say exactly the same thing that Denis has just said: this construction seems natural only for the first two examples. In the other cases, other means of expressing this kind of relation should be resorted to. </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Best wishes,</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Anna Filippova</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br>
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